Geophysicist Nils Christiansen is interested in the ecological footprint he leaves on the world. That’s why, in his still-young field of research, he poses the question: what impacts do offshore wind…
Katrin Tietz is a mechanical engineer and heads the mechanical production workshop at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), where scientific equipment is built with great precision.
Helmholtz President Otmar D. Wiestler calls for an even stronger alliance between science and industry – which would require e.g. the strategic bundling of research and innovation in a single federal…
The Science Year 2025 is dedicated to the topic of “Future Energy.” We talked about the transformation of our energy system with Bernd Rech, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Center Berlin and Vice…
The United Nations has proclaimed 2025 the International Year of Quantum Physics. The occasion: the centennial of the theory of quantum mechanics. In the first issue of our series to mark the Year of…
Swedish experimental physicist Thomas Nilsson is the new Scientific Director of the GSI in Darmstadt. In the following, he talks about his plans, the glamor of the Nobel Prize – and his penchant for…